Dover’s Ryan Coppinger helped lead the Canisius College baseball team to the MAAC championship and a berth in the Division I NCAA tournament. (Courtesy photo)

DOVER — Dover’s Ryan Coppinger played a key role for the Canisius College baseball team in a 12-11 win over Siena as the Griffins captured the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference championship.

The win earned them an automatic berth in the Division I NCAA tournament where they played top overall seed North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C., in the first round of a regional.

Coppinger had two hits, a stolen base and two assists in a 6-3 loss Friday to the Tar Heels. He extended his hitting streak to a career-high 10 games Saturday in a 14-6 loss to Florida Atlantic that ended the Golden Griffins’ season.

He later left the game with an injury after making a diving catch in right field.

Coppinger, a junior outfielder and a graduate of St. Thomas Aquinas, went 2 for 3 with a walk, an RBI and a run scored against Siena in the MAAC title contest.

He was named to the all-tournament team after hitting .455 (5 for 11) with six RBIs and four walks.

Former Coe-Brown standout Tucker White had three hits for the University of Southern Maine baseball team in a 5-4, 13-inning win over Ithaca in the Division III College World Series in Appleton, Wis.

The victory gave the Huskies a berth in the championship game which they lost to Linfield, 4-1.

White also had two hits and three RBIs in an 8-1 victory over Wisconsin Stevens Point in an elimination game earlier in the tournament.

Ashly Bennington of South Berwick, Maine, and Marshwood High School recently completed her first season with the Guilford College women’s lacrosse team.

The freshman defender was limited to eight games with two starts because of injuries. She finished with seven ground balls and three caused turnovers to help the Quakers of Greensboro, N.C., to a 15-2 record and their best season ever.

In one of her starts Bennington had season highs in ground balls with four and caused turnovers with two.

Dover’s Maddie Sullivan, a freshman infielder on the Brandeis University softball team, recently hit her first collegiate home run in a 9-7 loss to Clark.

She singled in the game-winning run in the bottom of the seventh inning of a 3-2 victory over Clark that earned a split of a doubleheader.

Sullivan also homered in a 6-2 loss to Babson.

To submit information about a local athlete playing in college email Al Pike at apike@fosters.com.